Shutter control device for moving picture apparatus



July 13, 1948. J. J. BRO'I'DO ETAL SHUTTER CONTROL DEVICE FOR MOVING PIOTURE APPARATUS Filed March 1, 1945 i 1 N ENTofis Jmcque s .jeofi Bro'i do 3&0 n Wan Ssbrod-i- Patented July 13, 1948 SHUTTEII CONTROL DEVICE FOR MOVING PICTURE APPARATUS Jacques Jean Bro'i'do, Joinvilie-le-Pont, and Jean Weissbrodt, Paris, France Application March 1, 1945, Serial No. 580,421

In France November 29, 1941 Section 1, Public Law 690, August 8, 1946 Patent expires November 29, 1961 1 Claim. 1

The invention relates to moving picture apparatus and more particularly to cameras. and it has for its object to devise a shutter control device such that the opening of the shutter may be altered during the operation, for example in order to obtain fading in or out of pictures or any other similar effects.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a simple and reliable device, in which all play is eliminated.

Further objects and features of the invention will be set forth in the following description, with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which: I

Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic sectional view of the shutter control device according to the invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the rotating shutter.

Referring to Fig. 1,.the device comprises a first pinion I, having oblique teeth, rigidly secured to a shaft 2, controlling one of the shutter blades 5 (Fig. 2) and a second pinion 3, having oblique teeth inclined in the reverse direction and rigid with a hollow shaft 4, fitting over shaft 2 and controlling the other blade 0,.

Blades 5 and 0, which form a rotary shutter, aresecured to flanges I and I of the corresponding shafts.

Shaft 2 is journalled in walls or partitions l and I0 and is driven by means of a pinion I I. in mesh with a spur wheel I2 forming part of the usual mechanism of the moving picture apparatus.

Pinions I and 3 are in constant mesh with an intermediate pinion it having two sets of intersecting reverse oblique teeth I3 and I4, the pitch of which is such as to make the device irreversible,

and the length of the pinions being such that the latterwillremaininmeshwithpinions I andt 101- any position of pinion I9 along its shaft II.

Axial displacement of said intermediate pinion device. I

Alternatively, pinion it may be risid with shaft II. which latter would then be imparted the translation movement.

In order to provide for an accurate translation,

is controlled by a fork It or any other suitable the control is preferably eifected by means of a rack I1 secured to fork I0 and a toothed wheel 12,

although any other similar means may be used to thatpurpose.

Theoperationisasfollows:

8haft2isdriveninrotationbygearl2and pinionllwhentheeameraorthelikeiaset action. Pinion I drives pinion 2 through intermediatepinionll. Bothbladeslandlare thus rotated synchronously, providing of course thatpinionsland3,ontheonehand,andll,

on the other hand. are of the same diameter and Pitch.

According to the axial position of pinion It relatively to pinions I and 3, the angular spacing of blades 5 and 6 can be altered, any longitudinal displacement of pinion I9 causing a rotation in reverse direction of plnions I and 3, due to the obliquity of the teeth. Control of the shutter opening may be made even during the operation of the camera or the like.

The device possesses a good sensitiveness, since any displacement of pinion it causes reverse rotation of the shutter blades.

If the shutter is constituted by blades having reciprocating rectilinear displacements, shafts 2 and I carry cams I9 and 20 (Fig. 3) which act on said blades for increasing or reducing the opening of the shutter.

Having now described the nature of this invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by letters Patent is:

A shutter control device for moving picture apparatus, comprising in combination two concentric shafts adapted to actuate the respective shutter blades and alter the relative position thereof, an oblique pinion keyed to each of said shafts, means for connecting one of said shafts with the driving mechanism of the moving picture apparatus, a secondary shaft parallel with said concentricshafts, an axially movable intermediate pinion slidable along said secondary shaft and having two intersecting sets of oblique teeth of reverse pitch adapted to mesh with said firstmentioned pinions, respectively, and means for moving said intermediate pinion axially.

JACQUES mm Baoino. JEAN WEIBSBROD'I.

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